Ordinary Gweilo
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Category: Media
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Someone seems to have bought the Spike mailing list, and is using it to send out a daily email about Hong Kong listed companies. It’s the sort of stuff that Spike used to publish, but sadly, as I don’t invest in the Hong Kong stock market, it isn’t of any great value to me (so…
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Anyone with a long memory for these things may recall a front-page story in the SCMP a few years ago about a proposed TV service to be provided by Hong Kong Telecom and Star TV (apparently Spike was involved in this in some way). I think they even got a licence from the government to…
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It’s obvious, really. Rather than labouring through August to churn out posts every day (well, er, some days), I should announce that I have produced a "double issue" and take the next week off. Just like most* weekly news and business magazines. Notice the creative use of the word "double". Not the dull old meaning…
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This is from The Times e-paper, and it’s been there for at least four hours. If this is really an exact copy of what’s in the printed newspaper (which is what it’s claimed to be) then they’ve got big problems: BLAIR will return to Street for a record Labour term today, but sharply reduced majority,…
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This week’s Post Magazine (free with the Sunday Morning Post, Hong Kong’s leading English language Sunday newspaper) has a piece, hidden away at the back, about the Shenzen Metro. It’s by David Evans, who I think was one of the SCMP journalists who had a turn running the Lai See column after Nury Vittachi was…
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On Wednesday I was glancing through the online edition of the SCMP and came across a rather idiotic opinion piece about Cyberport and PCCW by one John Tsang, Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology. Well, no surprise there, as the SCMP prints all sorts of nonsense on its opinion pages. What I didn’t realize until…
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Via Phil, news that the Far Eastern Economic Review is to cease publication as a weekly magazine and will try to survive as a monthly. I’m not at all surprised. I was a subscriber for a while, but I soon realized that I wasn’t actually reading very much (if any) of the magazine each week,…
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From today’s SCMP (subscription required): The chief executive of the Premier League has defended Cable TV’s coverage of the English game, declaring the switch from satellite broadcaster ESPN/Star a triumph. "It’s a big success story. A dedicated channel is all you can ask for if you’re running a sports competition," said Scudamore. "It’s great to…
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Wednesday’s Standard had a more detailed piece about the closure of Spike magazine: Spike’s demise had been predicted among the territory’s small expatriate journalist community ever since it opened. Spike was launched last November and was supported by nine investors – individuals and companies – among them staff and contributors. The magazine set out to…
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Spike has apparently ceased publication. Good news for George, but disappointing for the rest of us. UPDATE: Here is the story from Wednesday’s SCMP An errant investor has forced satirical magazine Spike to be, well, spiked. Publisher Stephen Vines confirmed yesterday that, following a key investor’s failure to deliver promised capital, the publication was finished.…
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